Creator

Men of Nineteen Fourteen

Recipient

John Muir

Transcription

OFFICE OFMEN OF NINETEEN-FOURTEEN202 SOUTH CLARK ST.CHICAGO, ILL.[illegible]Dear Sir:Please correct and return Biography below for MEN OF NINETEEN-FOURTEEN, the only obligation on your part being the acceptance of one copy containing your Biography, payable after delivery if satisfactory.Muir, Dr. John, Martinez, Cal. Geology Natural history. Dunbar, Scotland, April 21, 38.Hon. A.M., Harvard, 96; LLd, Wisconsin, 97. Student of wildernesses. F.A.A; Nat. Inst. of Arts and Letters; Acad. Arts and Letters; Sierra Club(pres); Am. Alpine Club(pres);Wash. Acad. Botany; discovered Muir Glacier.Or you can substitute a new or longer Biography to exactly suit yourself if you so desire.Return to, MEN OF NINETEEN FOURTEEN,202 S. Clark St., Chicago, III.05905

ALMOST READY FOR PUBLICATIONPROGRESSIVE MEN OF TO-DAYMEN OF 1914TWENTIETH CENTURY EDITIONNOTEWORTHY AS HAVING ACHIEVED success in their chosen vocations in the various Educational, Civil, Military, Industrial and Commercial lines of human effort; Men of thought and men of action who have been effective in the establishment and maintenance of the good name of our commonwealth; Prominent Citizens in all walks of life who are in truth the founders, makers and builders of our great Republic as manifested in America's great institutions of finance, commerce and trade, and its unparaleled progress in Education, Literature, Art, Science, and in the whole fabric of the Social and Industrial and Commercial Development of our Nation.Complete in One Royal Octavo VolumeLIBRARY EDITION TEN DOLLARSPrinted in large type with embossed covers, gold stamps and gilt edges, bound substantially by the best of skill, exploiting the axiom that "A Thing of Beauty Is a Joy Forever.”EXPERIENCED SUBSCRIPTION BOOK AGENTS WANTEDIN EVERY PART OF THE UNITED STATES

Location

Chicago

Circa Date

1914

Source

Original letter dimensions: 24 x 14.5 cm.

Resource Identifier

muir22_0865-let.tif

File Identifier

Reel 22, Image 0865

Collection Identifier

Online finding aid for the microform version of the John Muir Correspondence http://www.oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/kt0w1031nc

Copyright Statement

Some letters written to John Muir may be protected by the U.S. Copyright Law (Title 17, U.S.C.). Transmission or reproduction of materials protected by copyright beyond that allowed by fair use requires the written permission of the copyright owners. Responsibility for any use rests exclusively with the user.

Owning Institution

Holt-Atherton Special Collections, University of the Pacific Library. Please contact this institution directly to obtain copies of the images or permission to publish or use them beyond educational purposes.

Pages

2 pages

Keywords

Environmentalist, naturalist, travel, conservation, national parks, John Muir, Yosemite, California, history, correspondence, letters

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